STRANGE PHENOMENA - COUNTING HORSE & A DROMEDARY The Wonders of the World never shewed before - a flysheet for exhibitions of strange creatures. In Charing Cross of sundry enigmas - a wild girl, a woman without fingers toes or speech, with a facility in stroking away pains. The two pictures depict exhibitions at [1] between the Queen's Head and the Crooked Billet, near Fleet Bridge, London, where is exhibited a dromedary 'from Tartary', which are the 'swiftest creatures upon Earth', and [2] at The Ship, on Great Tower Hill, London, the exhibition of an intelligent horse that can understand
STRANGE PHENOMENA - COUNTING HORSE & A DROMEDARY The Wonders of the World never shewed before - a flysheet for exhibitions of strange creatures. In Charing Cross of sundry enigmas - a wild girl, a woman without fingers toes or speech, with a facility in stroking away pains. The two pictures depict exhibitions at [1] between the Queen's Head and the Crooked Billet, near Fleet Bridge, London, where is exhibited a dromedary 'from Tartary', which are the 'swiftest creatures upon Earth', and [2] at The Ship, on Great Tower Hill, London, the exhibition of an intelligent horse that can understand human speech, perform amusing tricks, and count - in word, The Finest Taught Horse in the World'. Circa 1714.
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